Hi and welcome to OpenStreetMap! I went ahead and reverted your edit because you seem to have added your business in the wrong state--WI instead of AZ. If you have questions about mapping, please let me know!

Happy Mapping,
Ethan aka FTA

Awesome, that's one I haven't looked at before so I will check it out! With the popularity of Pokemon Go, walking around a neighborhood holding up a cell phone draws much less attention than a legal pad on a clipboard :). Cheers!

Wow, you surveyed over 500 addresses?! Crazy awesome!! We need to catch up here in Wisconsin...

If you don't mind me asking, what system do you use to keep track of the addresses? I've been playing around with different phone apps, field papers, and digital notepads for address surveying, but just haven't found a solution that satisfies me enough in the ease balance between surveying and later retrieving.

Happy Mapping,
Ethan aka FTA

Welcome back to OSM! Glad to see more editors active in the Madison area :)

Hello there! Would it be possible to separate out changes that are across the globe into separate changesets? It's difficult for other mappers to know what exactly you changed and where you did when the bounding box is much of the planet. Thanks and Happy Mapping! Ethan aka FTA

Hi, I noticed you placed this business inside of Dollar Tree. To my knowledge, Dollar Tree is the sole occupant of that building and further their address is in the 1700 block. Was this data based on a survey? Best, Ethan aka FTA

Hi again Metehyi,
You haven't provided an alternative source for your data (though you have been editing since my first post), and the data clearly state they are derived from Geonames. Based on internet archive links, Geonames has had the same license since the time of your import. Beyond the links listed above, you can also check out mailing list discussions such as https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2007-May/014019.html or the forum http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=361073#p361073. So, unfortunately this data will have to be reverted and redacted as we cannot meet the licensing requirements of Geonames for use of their data.

Best,
Ethan aka FTA with the OSMF DWG
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Hallo wieder Metehyi,
Sie haben nicht eine alternative Quelle für die Daten zur Verfügung gestellt (obwohl Sie seit meinem ersten Beitrag bearbeitet haben), und die Daten deutlich, dass sie von Geonames ableiten. Basierend auf den Internet-Archiv Links, Geonames die gleiche Lizenz seit der Zeit des Import hatte. Über die Links oben aufgeführt sind, können Sie auch Mailing-Liste Diskussionen wie https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2007-May/014019.html überprüfen oder das Forum http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=361073#p361073. Also, leider werden diese Daten müssen rückgängig gemacht und unkenntlich gemacht werden, da wir nicht die Lizenzanforderungen von Geonames für die Nutzung ihrer Daten treffen können.

Beste,
Ethan aka FTA mit dem OSMF DWG

Hey, no problem! Just stumbled upon this today...I'm glad someone else is helping map my home town!
Best,
Ethan aka FTA

Hi, it looks like you potentially duplicated this way osm.org/way/363662756 with this node osm.org/node/4073409989

Hi, it would be useful to other mappers if you could use somewhat descriptive changeset comments. ''addressing'' unfortunately gives little information about the edits you've made, especially when it seems you're not actually adding any addresses. Here's some more info on the topic: osm.wiki/Good_changeset_comments

Happy Mapping,
Ethan aka FTA

Hi, as these areas are under dispute, we display a set of boundaries as the de facto borders not to be changed. You are more than welcome to add name tags corresponding to the language that refers to these items locally. See osm.wiki/Multilingual_names#Shared_boundary_features for more information.
Best,
Ethan aka FTA

Hello,
Welcome to OpenStreetMap! I see you have been adding some fuel stations and amenities, which is very great. But OSM is only for objects that exist in reality, so Pokestops are not something that you should map. Let me know if you have any questions!
Happy Mapping,
Ethan aka FTA

Hi Metehyi,

I know this changeset was quite some time ago, but you listed your source of this data as geonames.org. Generally that site has issues with its license compatibility (I think that is what was meant by tainted here: osm.org/user/Metehyi/diary/8627#comments but also see osm.wiki/Geonames).

So a few questions. Were able to obtain this information from another source like was mentioned in the comments? Also was there any community discussion for the import? Do you know what the data license was? For now I just wanted to revive conversation a bit on this. I'm doing some research into the license and data sources of geonames at that time. Thanks for any information you may be able to provide.

Best,

Ethan aka FTA with the Data Working Group
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Salut Metehyi,

Je sais que ce changeset était il y a un certain temps, mais vous énuméré votre source de ces données comme geonames.org. En général, ce site a des problèmes avec sa compatibilité de licence (je pense que est ce que l'on entend par "tainted" ici: osm.org/user/Metehyi/diary/8627#comments mais aussi voir osm.wiki/Geonames).

Donc, quelques questions. Nous avons pu obtenir cette information d'une autre source, comme cela a été mentionné dans les commentaires? Il y avait aussi toute discussion communautaire pour l'importation? Savez-vous ce que la licence de données était? Pour l'instant, je voulais juste faire revivre la conversation un peu à ce sujet. Je fais des recherches sur les sources de geonames à ce moment-licence et de données. Merci pour toute information que vous peut être en mesure de fournir.

Salutations,

Ethan aka FTA avec le Data Working Group

Hi,
Only real world things should be added to OpenStreetMap.
Happy Mapping,
Ethan (FTA)

Hallo,
Nur realen Welt Dinge sollten zu OpenStreetMap hinzugefügt werden.
Glückliche Mapping,
Ethan (FTA)

I should clarify: concrete as in real objects. Not just objects made of concrete.

私は明確にする必要があります: 実際のオブジェクトのようにコンクリート。コンクリートで作られたものだけでなく。

Hi, are these real buildings? Or virtual Pokemon Go places? Only concrete objects belong in OpenStreetMap.
Regards,
Ethan
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こんにちは、これらの実際の建物はありますか？または仮想ポケモン行く場所？唯一の具体的なオブジェクトは、OpenStreetMapのに属します。
よろしく、
イーサン

Hi Yin,
I think we (the data working group, of which Andy and I are members) have chatted with one of your colleagues before about the prior edits in Thailand. If you don't mind also sending an email to data@osmfoundation.org we can chat a bit and all get on the same page for moving forward. I saw some of the presentation from OSM-US and this looks like some interesting technology!
Best,
Ethan

Hi Man77,
I noticed you've been adding a lot of wikipedia=de:* tags to objects in China. is there a reason you are using the German tag for Chinese objects? From the wiki tag page (osm.wiki/Key:wikipedia?uselang=en-US): "only provide, in normal circumstances, a link to a single Wikipedia article, which should be to the article in the primary language for the subject." Secondary languages are suggested to be tagged as wikipedia:de=*.
Best,
Ethan aka FTA
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Hallo Man77,
Ich bemerkte, Sie haben eine Menge hinzugefügt wurden von wikipedia=de:* tags, um Objekte in China. gibt es einen Grund, dass Sie das deutsche tag für chinesische Objekte verwenden? Von der tag seite im Wiki (osm.wiki/Key:wikipedia?uselang=en-US): "die unter normalen Umständen einen Link zu einer einzelnen Wikipedia-Artikel, die auf den Artikel in der vorherrschenden Sprache für das Thema sein sollte." Sekundäre Sprachen werden vorgeschlagen, um als markiert wikipedia:de=*.
Am besten,
Ethan aka FTA

Hi there,

This is a *huge* amount of data added. Can you please provide some information about where you got this data? Is it licensed for use with OpenStreetMap? Is this from a company?

Best,
Ethan aka FTA

I believe osm.org/way/390547731 is not a parking lot despite satellite imagery as there is a brand new apartment complex just finished in this vicinity.